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The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

445 - What I Learned... about my capacity in this season of life

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

How To, Education, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.7 • 830 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Feeling guilty that your garden doesn't look like it used to? You're not alone. In this episode, I share how my own season of life changed my garden—and how you can adjust yours with less stress and more joy. You'll learn practical ways to right-size your garden for your time, energy, and goals (no shame required).

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Key Takeaways

  • Your garden should fit your current capacity, not your past one.

  • Define success for this season: a few crops you love may be enough.

  • Scale systems, not just space—irrigation, succession planting, simple trellises.

  • Use transitions (injury, grief, busy years) to pause, simplify, and reset.

  • Fall is prime for planting garlic; set it up well and let it work all winter.

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Disclaimer
Gardening advice shared in this podcast is based on my own experience in Zone 8a (Arkansas) and from the feedback I receive from others in different gardening contexts. Your results may differ depending on your location, climate, and growing conditions. Always check your local extension service or trusted resources for region-specific guidance. Some links mentioned may be affiliate links, which means I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you if you make a purchase. 

Transcript

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0:31.5

Beginners Garden podcast. Today I'm going to be mixing the personal with the practical, and we're going to be talking about

0:38.9

seasons of life. My goal is that no matter what season of life you're in right now, you'll

0:44.8

leave this episode encouraged and with some practical ideas on how to make the most of it.

0:51.0

Have you ever felt like your garden just doesn't match your energy anymore? That's where I'm at

0:57.7

currently with my season of life. In fact, just a few days ago, I went out to my garden to harvest

1:03.7

what little I did manage to plant in my large garden. You may have seen my kitchen garden. It's got

1:09.0

plenty of things in there. But my large

1:12.4

garden was what once was overflowing with vegetables, just absolutely beautiful. And it really has

1:20.7

very little in it right now. And what I found is I was a little sad. It kind of gave me that feeling of now that I have older kids,

1:29.8

they're 15 and 19. You look at them and then you remember what they were like when they were little

1:33.8

and you get this kind of sad, nostalgic feeling a little bit. Although for me, I honestly think

1:39.0

it's harder with the garden because at least with my teenagers, I really love the age that they're at. All that to say,

1:46.7

I just got a little bit sad because I was realizing what my garden used to be like, but I just

1:52.9

haven't been able to have the capacity to manage it this year. And it's been a little frustrating

2:00.1

for me. And it's caused me to have to do a lot of

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